How businesses can become sustainable organisations London Business School Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Ioannis Ioannou, presents his insights on how organisations can take a greener approach to the way to do business and succeed.Author(s): No creator set

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Normative Positions in Architectural Design - Deriving and Applying Design Methods This paper presents a recently finished course of eight weeks where CAAD skills, design methodology, and architectural theory are combined to discuss possible perspectives on the use of the computer in design, and its influence on architecture. In the course, three contemporary architects were studied; Peter Eisenman, Ben van Berkel, and Greg Lynn. Each was discussed on aspects of ontology (which are the elements of discourse), design method (design process and organization of the process), and Author(s): Achten, Henri

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25 Famous Numbers And Why They Are Important Ever since the development of arithmetic people have been fascinated with numbers. Some view them for their esoteric meaning while others see them through a mathematical eyes. Either way, numbers are everywhere and there is no way of escaping them. Some numbers, however, are found more often in our universe than others. These special numbers typically have some unique property that influenced us to add it to our list of 25 famous numbers and why they are important. (10:46)

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Get to Know University of Maryland Children's Hospital (UMCH) The University of Maryland Children's Hospital (UMCH) provides a family-centered environment for caring for patients with a wide range of medical needs. The physicians and staff within UMCH are compassionate and patient, working with each family as if they were their own. After all, UMCH knows that when a child is sick, the whole family suffers. We do our best to provide the appropriate care for each child at locations across Maryland and at the Children's Hospital in Baltimore.Author(s): No creator set

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UNSW alumnus Dean Kelly talks about the U.S. launch of HeyLets, an app that gives you the inside scoop on entertainment in your (or any) city.
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European leaders mark World War One centenary European leaders gathered in Belgium to attend 100th anniversary ceremonies of World War One. Sarah Toms reports.
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A Chinese company says its automatic sperm extractor is helping clinics collect semen from donors reluctant to masturbate in a hospital setting. The Jiangsu Sanwe Medical Science and Technology Center says their device, which has been sold to clinics in the US, Germany, Russia and France, simulates the temperature and feel of the female sexual organ, and is the most user friendly way of collecting samples for sperm donation or for those needing ferAuthor(s): No creator set

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Self-folding robots A team of engineers at Harvard and MIT have designed and built a flat-packed robot that assembles itself and walks away. Learn more at http://hvrd.me/A2mM9.Author(s): No creator set

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14.461 Advanced Macroeconomics I (MIT) 14.461 is an advanced course in macroeconomics that seeks to bring students to the research frontier. The course is divided into two sections. The first half is taught by Prof. Iván Werning and covers topics such as how to formulate and solve optimal problems. Students will study fiscal and monetary policy, among other issues. The second half, taught by Prof. George-Marios Angeletos, covers recent work on multiple equilibria, global games, and informational fictions.Author(s): No creator set

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11.308J Advanced Seminar: Urban Nature and City Design (MIT) This course will explore the mutual influences of ideas of nature, theories of city design and planning, and practices of urban design, construction, and management. We will investigate how natural processes shape urban landscapes (from the scale of street corner to region) and how to intervene strategically in those processes in order to achieve certain goals. We will examine cases of cities that adapted successfully to natural processes and those that did not. Students will then have the opporAuthor(s): No creator set

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11.483 Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions (MIT) A truly inter-disciplinary course, Housing and Land Use in Rapidly Urbanizing Regions reviews how law, economics, sociology, political science, and planning conceptualize urban land and property rights and uses cases to discuss what these different lenses illuminate and obscure. It also looks at how the social sciences might be informed by how design, cartography, and visual studies conceptualize space's physicality. This year's topics include land trusts for affordable housing, mixed-use in pubAuthor(s): No creator set

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Ten-year old Palestinian boy the first casualty of renewed fighting in Gaza A Palestinian boy has been buried in Gaza, the first casualty of post-ceasefire fighting between Israel and Hamas militants. Rob Muir reports.
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